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Holy Fire of Küstrin. Fedor von Bock looks like a man dying of some mysterious internal combustion. He is gaunt, and his eyes have the baleful stare of windows in a bombed-out house. He is a competent general-in Russia he has been Germany's best-and besides, he believes, with aggressive religiousness, in dying if necessary for the soil and honor of Prussia...
Fedor was son of a major general, grandson of a general. He was born 61 years ago in ancient Küstrin, where Frederick the Great was imprisoned by his father so that he would learn "the meaning of Prussianism." At cadet schools young Fedor showed by his unbreakable spirit that he already understood something of that meaning. By 1910 he had talked his way into the right to wear red stripes down his trouser legs-the badge of a general staffer. He had begun making speeches with the refrain: "Our profession should always be crowned by a heroic death...